Latex for thesis writing

In chapter1.tex: Some text... This way, you can typeset single chapters or parts of the whole thesis only, by commenting out what you want to exclude. Remember, the document can only be generated from the main file (thesis.tex), since the individual chapters are missing a proper LaTeX document structure.

The first choice in most cases will be the report document class: See here for a complete list of options. Personally, I use draft a lot. It replaces figures with a box of the size of the figure. It saves you time generating the document. Furthermore, it will highlight justification and hyphenation errors ( Overfull \hbox ).

Your thesis could be the longest and most complicated document you'll ever write, which is why it's such a good idea to use LaTeX instead of a common word processor. LaTeX makes tasks that are difficult and awkward in word processors, far simpler. When writing something like a thesis its worth splitting up the document into multiple.tex files.

To do this we use the \appendix command to tell LaTeX that what follows are appendices. Again We'll write the appendix in a separate file and then input it. If we now compile the document, all our chapters will be added to the document and the table of contents will be automatically generated. Now we have a basic structure for a thesis set up.